Loretta Breuning, PhD
Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Inner Mammal InstituteLocation
San Francisco Bay Area United StatesOccupation
I teach people about the brain chemicals that make us happy.Industry
Government / Military
Website
innermammalinstitute.orgAbout
Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels. She founded the Inner Mammal Institute to help people build new neural pathways to turn on their happy chemicals in new ways. (www.InnerMammalInstitute.org)As Professor of Management at California State University, and a mom, Loretta was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. While researching alternatives, she uncovered the brain chemistry we share with animals. She learned that each happy chemical evolved to motivate a specific survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time for no reason. Then everyt...